Intentional Growth

How to Increase the Value of Your Company


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Today on the Life After Business podcast, we’re going to be talking to Ken Sanginario. Ken is the founder of the Corporate Value Metrics and the creator of the Value Opportunity Profile and the Certified Value Growth Advisor. He’s got a lot of experience and he has developed a system that shows business-owners how to develop and implement a strategic plan. He’s going to give us some background on the work he’s done and some tips on how to fund your growth through your process. Sit back and relax; you won’t want to miss this episode!

In This Episode You’ll Learn:
  • Some of the milestones that got Ken to where he is today.
  • The first thing Ken would do when getting into a turnaround in order to keep the company running.
  • The importance of having a cash flow statement.
  • The main things Ken looks at to determine the value of a particular company, as well as how its value would relate to transferability.
  • How Ken would advise a business-owner who is in the middle of a crisis.
  • Some of the categories that Ken keeps in mind when figuring out a business’s valuation.
  • Some specific challenges that Ken has helped companies overcome.
  • Why it’s so hard for consultants to get business-owners to change.
  • Why having a process you can measure is essential.
  • Today’s podcast centers on the concept of value: value today, and value enduring. We have no greater asset than ourselves when we start a business, this is true. But we need to grow our businesses into stand-alone, fully functioning organizations that do not require our constant input and upkeep.

    The issue is: how do we get from here to there?

    Categorize Your Business Value Prioritize

    Ken Sanginario has identified 8 key points that all business owners need to consider. These are as follows: planning, leadership, sales, marketing, people, operations, finance and legal—and these breakdown further into 47 subcategories. Ken developed his role as a turnaround consultant with these points in mind and has successfully saved business and business owners alike from bankruptcy time and time again.

    These categories are not, of course, the alpha and omega of successful businesses—but they are pretty darn close. Ken has implemented his working business valuation model into a software program, as well, to aid struggling business owners on a wider plain.

    Every company is underperforming to some degree, even ones which are strong and profitable. This makes a turnaround consultant a vital part of your advisory team. Where a consultant adds value is by providing measurable ideas. If you’ve had a consultant approach your business in the past with lots of big ideas, but zero ways to measure these ideas, then you have not experienced a real consultant. True advisors are able to provide points (or, in this case, categories) to you which you can measure and evaluate over time so there are real progress points to show your increased business value.

    What Business Value is Valuable?

    Your best and truest valuation—the value of future cash flows—depends on sustainability, transferability and predictability.

    If your co

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